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Our Flag Means Death cast are ready to visit Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and other fantasy classics
Asked about their dream roles, actors including Rhys Darby and Vico Ortiz know exactly where they want to go next
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Our Flag Means Death is over, as much as that might upset fans to admit, but at Rose City Comic Con, four members of the show’s cast — Vico Ortiz, Rhys Darby, Kristian Nairn, and Matthew Maher — were asked what their dream roles would be for future projects. It’s safe to say that a couple of the answers might seem somewhat surprising, but also entirely perfect.
“You know, as soon as you started asking that, I thought of Dracula,” Darby said, adding, “that would be a dream for me.” So much of a dream, in fact, that he’d return to the idea later in the panel, imagining the costume — it would have a high collar, apparently — and referring to himself as “The Drac.”
Maher is similarly sticking with a classic, albeit somewhat more generically, suggesting “something with weird wizard vibes. I have no ideas, except a wizard. Can I say ‘a wizard’ out loud?”
Turns out, Nairn was feeling a similar inspiration, announcing that his pick would be “any version of Gandalf,” joking, “I’ve had a lot of experience with sackcloth” because of his Game of Thrones experience. That was just one of his two choices, however; he also announced, “I’d love to do a movie like Lost in Translation,” which he revealed was one of his favorite films. “I’ve traveled a lot, and I’d like to do a movie that expresses what it’s like to travel a lot, and see lots of different cities and different ways of life.”
But let’s turn to Vico Ortiz to take us back to wizards — kind of — with their absolutely ideal suggestion: “Any kind of Dark Jedi. Give me a fucking lightsaber already,” they said, to raucous cheers from the crowd. Lucasfilm, are you listening? The star of your next big Star Wars project just might have announced themselves.
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